Kerry Campaign: Bush/Cheney Attack Their Own CIA Nominee

U.S. Newswire

Cheney Attacked Intelligence Proposal that Porter Goss Voted For, Helped Write. Both the House and the Senate voted on bills that were essentially the same as the proposal the Administration is criticizing Senator Kerry for. The amendment passed the House with the support of Porter Goss - in fact, Goss was on the conference committee that wrote the final bill. The bill stripped the intelligence budget of its pet projects and pork, and shift our intelligence from the cold war to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The bill passed the Senate with a bipartisan voice vote. (9/29/1995: Proposed by Senator Coats for Senator Specter. Agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote; H.Rept. 104-427; HR1655; Became Public Law No: 104-93)

.. GOP Congress Passed Deeper Cuts Than Kerry Was Advocating. The Washington Post continued: "In fact, the Republican-led Congress that year approved legislation that resulted in $3.8 billion being cut over five years from the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office -- the same program Kerry said he was targeting." Kerry's proposal called for cutting intelligence funding by $1.5 billion over 5 years. ..

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the argument they used for tax cuts was that anyone who voted to rescind future tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent, was in fact voting to raise taxes---Kerry actually voted to increase the National Reconnaissance Office budget.

Since the GOP wanted to slash $3.8 billion and Kerry only wanted to trim $1.5 billion, Kerry's vote actually called for a raise of $2.3 billion.